Darren Dale wrote: > I am trying to work with properties, using python 2.4.2. I can't get the > docstrings to work, can someone suggest what I'm doing wrong? I think the > following script should print "This is the doc string.", but instead it > prints: > > "float(x) -> floating point number > > Convert a string or number to a floating point number, if possible." > > Thanks, > Darren
<snip> > a=Example() > print 'myattr docstring:\n', a.myattr.__doc__ > print 'foo docstring:\n', a.foo.__doc__ > print 'bar docstring:\n', a.bar.__doc__ change this part to: print 'myattr docstring:\n', Example.myattr.__doc__ print 'foo docstring:\n', Example.foo.__doc__ print 'bar docstring:\n', Example.bar.__doc__ What happens is that when property is accessed from an instance, it returns whatever the fget function returns, and the __doc__ attribute is then looked up on that object. To get to the actual property object (and its __doc__ attribute) you have to access it from a class. Ziga -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
